New Thinking in Integrity: Where is UNIC Now? Tetiana Kheruvimova Business Ombudsman Council

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1 New Thinking in Integrity: Where is UNIC Now? Tetiana Kheruvimova Business Ombudsman Council

2 UNIC Community in Numbers Members Employees Cities 42 companies 25,724 all over the country 28

3 Key Numbers Members 42 companies Micro Small Medium Large ,9% 28,57% 35,71% 23,81% 3 under consideration

4 Key Numbers Employees Chernivtsi Cherkasy Rivne Ivano-Frankivsk Ternopil Mykolaiv Odesa Lviv Kyiv ,724 In 28 Cities all over the country

5 Key Numbers Sectors 1. Pharmaceutical 2. Accounting 3. Agriculture & Agribusiness 4. Banking 5. Beauty & Cosmetics 6. Construction 7. Financial Services 8. FMCG 9. Food industry 10. IT 11. Legal Services 12. Manufacturing 13. Real Estate 14. Retail Classification of Harvard Business School

6 UNIC Members Motivation Expert View Good Business Reputation Value-adding Communication Commitment to ABC measures Experts meetings / trainings and access to best international practices Educating business (counterpartners, competitors) and citizens about integrity and transparency; Making the market better Easier access to credits, easier entry to international markets, lightening regulatory pressures Benefit from the experience of the Network s members in addressing the same challenges and sharing the best practice Combating corruption through collective action

7 Business Integrity Logo Holder UNIC Member UNIC Members Levels 1 Completed Self-Assessment Questionnaire 2 Passed Open Data Screening 3 Signed and complies with UNIC Memorandum 4 Performed commitments taken in the course of self-assessment 5 Implemented the Business Integrity Standard 6 Passed verification of the Business Integrity Standard 7 Maintains the Business Integrity Standard and regularly passes verification

8 UNIC Members Commitment Publicly available commitment towards integrity and anti-corruption Due diligence of all partners, individual sub-contractors, suppliers and clients Code of Conduct or equivalent formal policy documents UNIC Member Training sessions for members Specific individual or a department responsible for compliance, reporting directly Procedure to conduct investigations and impose sanctions or corrective actions

9 Confidence arising from Control Executive Board (approved under the voting date 2 October 2017) Ethics Committee (will be approved at the meeting of the Executive Committee on 9 October 2017) Experts Groups (please join) Single transparency standard among the Network s peers under the supervision of neutral third parties

10 Where are we now? A multi-stakeholder collective action strategy will more likely upset the equilibrium by reducing freeloading, overcoming political structures and resolving the secondorder collective action dilemma than disparate programs that are not coordinated or part of a wider strategy. ( J Storey) In a thoroughly corrupt setting even people that think corruption is morally wrong are usually likely to take part because they see no point in doing otherwise. (B Rothstein) What is needed to establish a new equilibrium of social exchange is a big bang type of change. (B Rothstein) A multi-stakeholder collective action strategy will more likely upset the equilibrium by reducing freeloading, overcoming political structures and resolving the second-order collective action dilemma than disparate programs that are not coordinated or part of a wider strategy. ( J Storey) Focus on the things that you can do something about tackle corruption where you have the best chance of success. (M Khan)